ABOUT

This is a space where corporate accountability lawyers and advocates can come together to combat the ever-diminishing set of legal tools available for holding multinational corporations accountable for environmental and human rights abuse around the world. Faced with a growing impunity gap, an increasingly connected world, and urgent planetary and human suffering — it’s time to get creative.

 

The Idea Bank is an online platform (facilitated by Corporate Accountability Lab, but belonging to all members) that serves the corporate accountability community by offering a library for legal research and a repository for our most ambitious—if also sometimes incomplete—ideas. The Idea Bank is meant to provide both grounded guidance and lofty inspiration. In the library, which encompasses more than 20 areas of law, you’ll find preliminary notes on novel ideas, memos, relevant and well-researched blog posts, published reports, model contract clauses, submitted petitions, and draft legislation — an entire ecosystem of resources ranging in scope and form, and ranked on a scale of “low confidence” to “high confidence” (high = published or peer-reviewed).

 

The Brief Bank is housed within the Idea Bank platform, but is specifically designed to support corporate accountability litigators in the United States. There are numerous barriers to remedy in federal and state court systems, and while each case is unique, litigators need not re-create the wheel when crafting arguments for frequently relevant issues like forum non-conveniens, choice of law, or the political question doctrine. The Brief Bank spans well over a dozen issue areas, offering US litigators the opportunity to share successful templates and organize around the most effective strategies for achieving corporate accountability for environmental and human rights abuse.  

 

The Idea Bank and Brief Bank collectively represent the theory that legal innovation is necessary for achieving justice for victims of corporate abuse, and that innovation will flourish when we collaborate across jurisdictions and areas of expertise. This is your space. Use and shape it as you need.

 

Please read the Rules of Engagement (which includes restrictions on member eligibility), sign up to become a member, or submit feedback by contacting the facilitation team.